User Agent and Assistive Technology Support Notes

Description

The objective of this technique is to define the role of an element using the role attribute with one of the non-abstract values defined in the WAI-ARIA Definition of Roles. The WAI-ARIA specification provides an informative description of each role, how it relates to other roles, and the states and properties for each role. When rich internet applications define new user interface widgets, exposing the roles enables users to understand the widget and how to interact with it.

Related Techniques

Tests

Procedure

Check that the value of the role attribute is one of the non-abstract roles from the values defined in the WAI-ARIA specification.

Check that the characteristics of the user interface component are described by the role.

Expected Results

#1 and #2 are true.

If this is a sufficient technique for a success criterion, failing this test procedure does not necessarily mean that the success criterion has not been satisfied in some other way, only that this technique has not been successfully implemented and can not be used to claim conformance.